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Ralph Maughan

Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is President of the Western Watersheds Project.

6 Responses to White House edits Center for Disease Control climate testimony

Not surprising given this administration’s focus on controlling information. After all of the hubbub around global warming the administration instituted a new review process for USGS scientists. Now, in addition to peer review, each article must go through a friendly review, as well as an additional review. In my experience, nothing was ever changed–I believe it was simply an effort to slow down the already painfully slow process of science by an administration that has been perpetually embarrassed by scientific evidence that conflicts with their political positions.

People, especially gentle liberal people, seem to forget that this administration and their party hacks thought nothing of using vote tampering and a handpicked and carefully cowed supreme court to fraudulently steal a national election, then went on to lie in order to start a war that they believed would lead them beyond just corrupt war contracts and all the way to private control over vast oil reserves, just as the world hit the peak oil mark. Now you’re shocked to learn that they would dare monkey with a little vague scientific testimony from some timid agency nerds? Come on; you must be kidding. Come out of denial. These slithering degenerates are capable of anything. Fraudulent testimony is child’s play for them.

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."